Message from PM Modi’s Rajya Sabha speech: Reforms will continue and none will be left behind
Prime Minister defends farm reforms, says India can achieve great things if it comes together as one February 08, 2021 / 05:16 PM IST
Prime Minister Narendra Modi replied to the Motion of Thanks to the President’s Address in the joint session of Parliament on February 8 in the Rajya Sabha. In his 75-minute-long speech, Modi crystallised and encapsulated his government’s achievements and vision for the country.
That Modi is an orator and communicator par excellence is established, especially in the past six years, and his speech in the upper house had a measured restraint which only amplified the gravity of the speech and topics he dealt upon.
Is GameStop a bubble? History’s spectacular crashes from tulips to beanie babies
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Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez
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If GameStop is a bubble, it’s hardly the first.
From tulip mania in the 17th century to the dot-com spectacle of the 1990s, bubbles have boosted and burned investors for centuries.
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Here’s a look at some previous bubbles:
Tulip Mania
When tulips were introduced to Western Europe in the 16th century, they were prized for their brilliant colors. Eventually, though, the Dutch took the tulip trade to the next level, as the 19th century writer Charles Mackay points out in his book “Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds. The people of 17th century Holland were no strangers to markets and trade. The stock exchange in Amsterdam had been operating since 1602, and the Dutch East India Company was already selling bonds and s
Offshore wind farms, big in Europe, could boom in US under Biden
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File Photo: President Biden signed an executive order last month directing the Interior secretary to identify steps to double offshore wind production by 2030
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Wind project developers are pressing the administration to ease bureaucratic hurdles to building giant turbines off the Atlantic coast
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Developers of offshore wind farms, long awaiting their moment in the US, are pushing the Biden administration to cut through red tape that has for years stymied the industry’s domestic growth.
President Biden signed an executive order last month directing the Interior secretary to identify steps to double offshore wind production by 2030, part of an effort to deploy more renewable energy to combat climate change.
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